How to list installed plugins in Cordova and how to add or uninstall an existing plugin.

If you are new to Cordova and about to learn to program your first mobile app. You might want to know how to install, remove or view plugins for your app. So why you do need a plugin? Plugins in cordova is considered as a component or a module created to be used to access Native API of your phone. For example if you need to access your phone camera, you will need a camera cordova plugin which is cordova-plugin-camera. There are heaps of available plugin created by developers, you just need to try and test them so it works according to your need.

Here are the list of commands you will learn on how to add, remove or view an existing plugin. Please note, you will require NodeJS in order to run those commands. To list available plugins available on your cordova mobile app, simply open a NodeJS command prompt and go to your mobile app project folder and type in the following command.

cordova plugin list

If you are using the latest Cordova, you can run this short command as well.

cordova plugins

To add a plugin into your cordova app, you can run the following command.

If you receive the following email with message Missing Info.plist key - This app attempts to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description from Apple, it means you have not included a usage description in one of your cordova plugin. It happened to myself when I develop a cordova android app where it requires a Cordova Camera plugin. In the email, I received the following message The app's Info.plist must contain an NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription key with a string value explaining to the user how the app uses this data. It means when you install a plugin you have to include a variable parameter to pass the usage description.

This is the second part tutorial of our first ebook cordova tutorial. If you miss the first part of the tutorial, I would recommend you to read the first tutorial before continue reading this article. You can click the following link to read the first tutorial. As I promised, in this tutorial, you will learn how to package your ebook app into .apk file. The first thing you have to do is to configure your application configuration setting xml file. This configuration information is used by Cordova to package your application. The configuration xml file is located under the root folder named config.xml. If you open your config xml file using any text editor, you will have the following information.

You will learn how to create your first android app using Cordova. The ebook will consists of 5 basic pages and will use AngularJS for the navigation, Slideout script for the menu navigation and Bootstrap template for the basic mobile layout.

If it is your first time learning to build android project, you may find an issue when try to generate a private key. This message keytool is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. may occur if the path of your java sdk has not been set globally.

Are you completely new to Cordova programming? If you visit the cordova site and follow the example step by step. On the time you create the project and try to add a platform, if you forget to navigate to the your project name directory and you set your preference platform. You will receive the following error message Current working directory is not a Cordova based project..